Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appendicitis operation of 1926 has long been mended and a new Miss Wills has been evolved-a harder-hitting, more accurately chop-stroking Miss Wills who critics expect will win both the Wimbledon and U. S. championships...
Lacoste v. Tilden. The finals . . . RenÉ Lacoste, a leading, eellike man with blue-black hair, with dark circles under his eyes . . . Tilden, long arms and long legs covering the court like a madcap daddylonglegs . . . both confident . . . both using every weapon of the game, tantalizing chop-strokes, lobs, uncanny placements, cannonballs . . . Lacoste injuring a leg trying to recover a Tilden cannonball . . . Tilden being called three times for foot faults by Allan Muhr, umpire from the U. S. . . . Tilden arguing with Muhr...
...Harvard crew, materially strengthened by the return of Captain Geoffrey Platt '27 to the number 5 seat, pulled steadily away from the second eight. The time is especially impressive considering the sharp cross wind which kicked up a considerable chop in the lower Basin. Two years ago the 1928 Freshman crew made exactly the same time in a mile and three-quarters time trial, but on that occasion conditions were much more favorable. The second crew, stroked by C. McK. Norton '29. finished far behind but made fairly good time nevertheless...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
Such were the self-revealing remarks of Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a Swiss correspondent who referred by chance, in Il Duce's presence, to the famed mutton chop whiskers of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz...